From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As I write, $SPY and $QQQ are below their respective eight-day moving averages.

They could potentially be heading down to their 21-day moving averages, which is roughly 429 on SPY and 354 on QQQ.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to the 2 to 100 Club.

Something we've been working on internally is using various bottoms-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. It's really been working for us!

One way we're doing this is by identifying the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega-cap status (over $200B).

Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.

But the scan doesn't just end there.

We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The Nasdaq pulled in the most today, with $QQQ dropping down to its eight-day moving average.

Now, this is either a bull flag or we'll head lower.

This is the video recording of the June 21, 2023, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Matrix Capital Management.

The hedge fund reported the acquisition of 4,760,000 shares, equivalent to $107.8 million, in the small-cap biotech company Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc $ZNTL.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

This morning the market is unchanged.

And we have Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking at 10:00 a.m. ET.

This is the video recording of the June 2023 Mid-month Conference Call.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Trading was pretty sloppy overall, with names struggling for momentum.

Some certainly pulled through, though. 

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Donegal Mutual Insurance Company.

The firm reported a $2,279,836 purchase in Donegal Group Inc $DGICA.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We had a nice contraction on Friday, and we're indicating lower this morning.

I'll watch to see how $SPY handles the 435 area.

I was promised a crisis. Maybe even a recession.

Instead all I got was the best start to a year for the Nasdaq100 ever.

You want to talk about ignoring the news and focusing on price?

This is why.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to our latest Minor Leaguers report.

We've had some great trades come out of this small-cap-focused column since we launched it back in 2020 and started rotating it with our flagship bottom-up scan, Under the Hood.

For the first year or so, we focused only on Russell 2000 stocks with a market cap between $1 and $2B.

That was fun, but we wanted to branch out a bit and allow some new stocks to find their way onto our list.

We expanded our universe to include some mid-caps.

To make the cut for our Minor Leaguers list, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $4B.

And it doesn't have to be a Russell component — it can be any US-listed equity. With participation expanding around the globe, we want all those ADRs in our universe.

The same price and liquidity filters are applied. Then, as always, we sort by proximity to...